This week was a cycle of rush and collapse, steps forward, steps back.
This week, in our coven, in the dark of the New Moon, we danced to draw down the power in our voices, to listen to our bodies, to know what's coming.
This week, in Romania, police detained the far-right presidential hopeful Georgescu and 20 of his allies who had manipulated an election with hundreds of paid Tik Tok accounts.
When detained, Georgescu and his supporters were found with a cache of assault rifles, grenade launchers, piles of cash and tickets to Moscow.
Georgescu is charged with "incitement to actions against the constitutional order," giving "false information, false statements" and for setting up an organisation with "fascist, racist or xenophobic characteristics" as well as forming an antisemitic organisation.
Arrest the criminals who violate the constitution.
It can be done.
This week I wanted to feel better, to feel like myself, to have energy again after finishing chemo. I tried to run before I could walk, I often hit the wall. There's a portal right there, but I'm not through it yet.
What got me through is a weekly stitch and bitch group with my neighbours. We joined Crafted for Courage and learned how to crochet.
We thrifted bags of wool. We move through time gently, stitch by stitch, laughing. We lend our Granny Squares and our mounting energy to a collective act resisting violence. It's small. It helps.
In the words of one covenmate who works behind the scenes building climate resilience in coastal communities: We do everything we can, and in between, we dance.
We do everything we can, and in between:
We dance.
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On the Missing Witches zine this week, Dr. Julia Skinner wrote about tending to a process of transformation with one daily act.
Imagine the world you want to build and tend to it with one act of care, one stir a day, one twist of the endless two-step, one stitch at a time.
Imagine what you want to transform and whisper to yourself: It can be done.
On the podcast this week
In the second half of our exciting conversation with the electric and wise Patty Krawec we talk about language, theoretical physics, pyro-epistemology, stones, stories and white supremacy.
Mutual Aid Opportunity
"Jen Deerinwater, our queer, two-spirit, Indigenous (enrolled tribal member), multiply disabled comrade is in desperate need of a home to settle down in and make accessible so they can recover from multiple surgeries, access critical ongoing care, and prevent housing instability.
Jen is a critical leader in many marginalized communities and deserves a safe place to make accessible. Having a stable, accessible home will save Jen’s life. Please donate what you can and share this with your community."
Jen DeerinWater is the Founding Executive Director of Crushing Colonialism
Jen Deerinwater is a bisexual, Two-Spirit, multiply-disabled, citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and an award-winning journalist and organizer who covers the myriad of issues hir communities face with an intersectional lens. Jen is the founding executive director of Crushing Colonialism and a 2019 New Economies Reporting Project and a 2020 Disability Futures fellow.
Invitations
All Coven: Body Doubling and Pomodoro Writing Circle
Weekdays, 7-11am ET
"Quiet collective working, 5 minute breaks every 25 minutes." Hosted by Reed
All Coven: Writing Circle - sharing and workshop
Wednesday, 5 Mar, 7:00 – 8:00 PM EST
"Bring any writing or any ideas for a piece you'd like to share and/or workshop with the group! For ease of sharing, please type or copy your piece into a google doc and set sharing settings to "anyone with link" so everyone can follow along 📝
As with previous circles, we'll go around the circle introducing ourselves to warm up the space and our voices. After intros, anyone who wants to share a piece is welcome to! If you don't want feedback but just want to share your words, that is also welcome 🙌
If you want to join as an audience member and don't have a piece to bring, you are still absolutely welcome! But the more voices and work we get to hear, the better! Be brave with us! We would love to hear what you're working on ✨" Hosted by Em.
All Coven: Monthly Nature Writing Group
Sunday, 9 Mar, 1:00 – 2:00 PM EDT
"The purpose of this group is for us to learn together about nature writing from educational resources (e.g. books with writing prompts), and to practice nature writing together, and to maybe do more!
When we initially meet, we can decide together how we want to structure our meetings and what resources we want to use.
This will be a monthly event on zoom, with no obligation to attend consistently. We will meet on the second Sunday of each month at 1pm ET (at least for now). I’ve scheduled the meetings to be 1 hour long, but we can take more time if needed." Hosted by Julie N.
WEAVERS Readings for the Collective
Monday, Mar 10, 1:00 – 1:30 PM EDT
Risa will read from the Missing Witches Deck of Oracles. Come with your own decks or tools. Lets get grounded and share insights.
All Coven OFFICIAL EVENT: Witchcraft 101-2: Spell Crafting and Casting
Thursday, Mar 13, 7:30 – 9:00 PM EDT
"These meetings will be a place and time for novices and experts to gather together to learn and teach some of the basics of Witchcraft! Bring your favourite modes, stories and resources!
I'll do a brief introduction to the topic, then we'll open the floor to questions and discussions! My hope is that the Spell-crafting Fluent will share their knowledge, and the Spell Newbies will share their queries in a "There's No Such Thing As A Stupid Question" kind of environment.
What is a spell? How do we do them? Are there rules? Can we invent them ourselves? What are spells that have worked for you? Let's get our hands dirty and do some f**king MAGIC!!" Hosted by Amy.
All Coven OFFICIAL EVENT: EPIC SPELL POEM RECORDING
Friday, Mar 14, 7:30 – 8:30 PM EDT
"HAVE YOU BEEN PLAYING WITH YOUR SPELL POEM? You've got two weeks left to get started!! In case you missed the prompt, details are HERE!!
On Friday March 14th we'll gather to read our spell poems for what will become one long epic spell from the Missing Witches Coven (MWC). I'll take our recording, give it some sparkle jush, and then we'll spread the magic of the MWC across the world on our podcast feed at Ostara!
If you can't make it to the live recording, PLEASE record a voice memo reading your spell poem and email it to us, and I'll edit it into the final transmission. I've already received a few - thank you!!!" Hosted by Amy.
All Coven OFFICIAL EVENT: Circle for Meeting New Witch Friends
Sunday, Mar 16, 2:00 – 3:30 PM EDT
"I want to help us meet each other and stitch connections across the coven, so please join me for a speed friending circle! I'll open the circle and we'll come up with some seed questions together and then use the Zoom breakout rooms option to meet in small groups, changing every ten minutes or so. At the end we'll come back together to share a few closing well-wishes." Hosted by Risa.
WEAVERS Full Moon Loom - Full Blood Worm Moon
Sunday, Mar 16, 8:00 – 9:30 PM EDT
Celebrate the Full Blood Worm Moon with the nucleus of the Missing Witches Coven. We invite you to plan a short ritual action to lead us from the soil to the sun.
btw, yup, we're late this week. AND we're taking next week off. We find we need to ferment ourselves a bit before releasing the Spring Kinship season of the podcast.
Love you soon,
R+A
